Congress is expected this week to approve a fifth stopgap budget bill to keep the government open in advance of a Thursday shutdown deadline, and key healthcare provisions could be included in the budget package.

The year-end schedules of the Senate HELP and Finance committees just became more clogged, as the two panels will lead the review of President Trump's nominee to be Health & Human Services (HHS) secretary.

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